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Kristen Hunter-Cevera investigates abundant organisms in the ocean, a photosynthetic bacteria called Synechococcus, that are also an important food source in the marine food chain and produce a significant portion of…

Designed and built by WHOI scientists, the original vehicle Jason was launched in 1988. A more advanced, second-generation Jason (pictured) launched in 2002. Jason is a remotely operated vehicle—a tether links it to a control room on a research…

Berlinda Batista of Bridgewater State University, Ellin Rittler of University of San Francisco, and Kelly Luis of Columbia University (left to right) learn how to perform a beach survey in the…

Visitors learned about the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale detection mooring during a public event in June 2015. The listening system allows researchers to detect the location of right…

WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (foreground) and Matt Gould test an acoustic-release float in Woods Hole Harbor. The float is packed with thousands of feet of line and designed to sit…

The deep submergence vehicle (DSV)  Aluminaut, shown at WHOI in 1961, was owned by the Reynolds Metals Co. (later Reynolds Aluminum) and operated briefly by WHOI in the early 1960s. In…

Summer Student Fellow Sara Hamilton (left) and Julie Pringle, a laboratory assistant in the Biology Department, use a seine net during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth,…

During his time at WHOI as a Summer Student Fellow, William Goldsmith was occasionally seen fishing for research subjects off the Iselin dock. The summer-long program gives undergraduate students an…

Summer Student Fellow Miranda Cashman (front) and Northeastern University student Michelle O’Donnell prepare samples for a germanium gamma detector in the Coastal Systems Lab run by WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly.…

For years WHOI researchers have been studying ocean acidification and its impacts on marine life. In 2009, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Justin Ries (now at Northeastern University) with WHOI scientists Anne…

WHOI scientists are often spotted around Cape Cod leading teams of students on class fieldtrips. Sometimes common features on land can even fill in as simplified examples of larger, more…

WHOI biologist Stace Beaulieu led a group of undergraduate Summer Student Fellows on a tour of beach ecology during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth. The goal…

Research associate Bruce Keafer and senior engineering assistant Jim Dunn wrestle a battery pack onto a frame to hold an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a computerized mini-laboratory to be moored…

In 1948, this WHOI flume was located in a small building behind the Bigelow Laboratory, and was used for studies of phenomena that included the flow of fresh-water into saltwater.…

Each year, thousands of barrels of oil seep out of the ocean floor. On a 2009 cruise aboard the R/V Atlantis, WHOI chemist Christopher Reddy (right) and David Valentine of…